Man, I thought people at Media General were pretty safe from layoffs. I mean they might not ever fill jobs when they come open, but I never got the feeling that people already there were in much danger.

Still, he is right. And odds are, the vast majority of the 70 will be outside of editorial.

Doesn't mean it doesn't suck for the folks who lose their jobs. But advertising staffers or newspaper carriers or mailroom employees aren't in quite the same employment situation as folks in editorial departments.

Updated story (click same link in first post of thread) said fewer than 10 of 280 newsroom jobs will be cut.

They're doing what my local metro did a few months ago, folding the Friday leisure section into the Weekend section. It also folded the Sunday broadsheet Travel and Arts sections, among other pages, into a crappy tabloid "(Cityname) Sunday" section. It's an overstuffed mess that I fail to see as a better product, yet I can see where it saves manpower. There's none of those 40-inch features that someone might actually want to read on a Sunday morning.

Still, he is right. And odds are, the vast majority of the 70 will be outside of editorial.

Doesn't mean it doesn't suck for the folks who lose their jobs. But advertising staffers or newspaper carriers or mailroom employees aren't in quite the same employment situation as folks in editorial departments.